Josef hinner



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

J OSEF HINNER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUN GARY,

B U TT 0 N SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,272, dated July- 21, 1891.

Application filed November 22, 1890. Serial No. 372,391. (No model.) Patented in Germany October 21, 1890, No. 57,823 in England October 23,1890, 110.16,.947; in Belgium October 25, 1890, No. 92,466; in France October 2'7, 1890, No. 209.133, and

in Austria-Hungary December 19, 1890, No. 3,815 and No. 3,756.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JosEF HINNER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Vienna, in the Province of Lower Austria, have invented certain uewand usefulImprovements in Buttons, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Germany, dated October 21, 1890, No. 57,823; in France October 27, 1890, No, 209,133; in Belgium October 25, 1890, No. 92,466; in Austria -I-Iungary December 19, 1890, No. 3,815 and No. 3,756, and in England October 23, 1890, No. 16,947,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of buttons which are generally known as self-fast ening buttons, and it has for its object to provide a button of simple and cheap construction, which can be readily and securely attached to any fabric without the aid of stitching, and also detached therefrom at will without injury to thesaid fabric. According to the invention the said self-fastening button is composed of a hollow head and of a back carrying the shank. The said hollow head contains a disk or diaphragm which is so slit-ted as to form two springy lips,between which the shank stuck through the fabric passes and is retained byitsthickenedfree end. In order to afford possibility for the removal of the button, the face plate of the hollow head has a central hole, and in or by the side of either lateral edge of either springy lip is formed a notch, so that a hook may be inserted through the said central hole into the said notch, and by this hook the springy lip sufficiently lifted to admit of the head being pulled off the shank.

In order to make the invention perfectly understood, the same is hereinafter fully described with reference to the annexed sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation ofa selffastening button embodying the invention, and Fig. 2 a plan view of the said button. Figs. 3 and dare a sectional elevation and plan View, respectively, of the slit disk or diaphragm inclosed in the hollow head of the button. Figs. 5 and 6 are analogous views of the back and shank of the button.

The hollow head of the button is by preference made of sheet metal, and then is composed of the dish-shaped face plate ct and a likewise dish shaped back plate I), both plates having their rims overlapping one another. In order to keep the head of the button a certain distance apart from the fabric 0, to which the button is fastened, the said back plate I) has a cylindric projection or neck (1 formed in its center. Within the hollow space formed by the face plate CL and back plate I) is arranged the disk or diaphragm f, kept in an unvariable position near the back-plate b by its rim or flange g bearing against the front plate a and by the cap Z,inclosed in the neck (I. In the central portion of the diskfa short slit 1, of diametrical direction, isprovided, and at both ends of this slit 1 there are other slits 2 and 3 perpendicular to it, whereby an H-shaped slit is formed. The elastic lips i 1 on both sides of the slit 1 have their meeting edges slightly turned up and have recesses 7: formed in the said edges, by which recesses or notches an aperture is formed for receiving the shank j, made integral with the circular back an and having a thickened free end or head 01.

As may be inferred from Fig. 1, the shank j is passed through the fabric 0 and afterward the head of the button, which has central perforations in the botton of the neck cl, and in the cap Z is pressed upon the shank j until the head it of the shank has passed through the aperture formed by the notches 7c of the lips i i. \Vhile the said head n is passing between the lips i t' the same yield upwardly, and as soon as the head it is passed they move downward again under the action of their elasticity, and by closing together beneath the said head it they preventthe head of the button from being pulled off the shankj.

Possibility for removing the button at will from the fabric without injury to this latter is afforded by the central perforation o of the face plate a and the notch p, formed in or by the side of either lateral edge of either elastic lip i. As will be readily understood, this arrangement enables a hook to be introduced through the central aperture 0 into the notch p, and the lip "L in or by the side of whose lateral edge the said notch 13 is formed to be IOQ sufficiently lifted by the said hook as to ad phragnl, and a back carrying a shank the mit of the head of the button being pulled off free end of which is thickened, a notch being the shank j. formed by the side of the lateral edge of one I 5 \Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letof the lips formed by the H-shaped slit, sub- 5 ters Patent of the United States, isstantially as and for the purpose described.

In a self-fastening button, the combination, Intestimonywhereoflhavehereunto atfixed with a.holl0w head having central perforamy signature, in presence of two Witnesses, tlons in its front and back plates, of a diathis 4th day of November, 1890.

phragin inserted into the hollow space of the JOSEF HINNER. 10 said head and having a central perforation Vitnesses:

and an H-shaped slit, the middle portion of \V. B. MURPHY,

which passes through the center of the dia- NETTIE S. HARRIS. 

